PHELIPS (PHILLIPS), Robert (1619-1707), of Redlynch, Som. and Whitehall.

Family and Education

b. 1 Feb. 1619, 2nd s. of Sir Robert Phelips of Montacute and bro. of Edward Phelips I. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 1634-7; I. Temple 1637, called 1661. m. bef. 1653 his cos. Agneta (d.1691), da. of Sir Robert Gorges of Redlynch and h. to her nephew Poyntz, 2s. 3da. d.v.p.Le Neve, Mon. Angl. 1650-1718, p. 219; St. Paul Covent Garden (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxxiii), 16, 19; Westminster Abbey Reg. (Harl. Soc. x), 191, 229; Denizations and Naturalizations (Huguenot Soc. xviii), 76; CSP Dom. 1653-4, pp. 87, 143; R. Gorges, Hist. Fam. Gorges, 117-18.

Offices Held

Col. of horse (royalist) 1643–6.Ludlow Mems. i. 54, 416.

Groom of the bedchamber to the Duke of Gloucester by 1656 – Sept. 1660, to the King 1661 – 85; commr. for great wardrobe 1685 – 87, privy seal 1685 – 87; chancellor, duchy of Lancaster 1687–9.Archaeologia , xxxv. 343; Cal. Cl. SP. iii. 198; Cal. Treas. Bks. i. 296; viii. 20, 697, 1357.

Freeman, Portsmouth Apr. 1660; warden of Salcey forest, Northants. July – Aug. 1660; commr. for assessment, Surr. 1661 – 64, Wilts. 1661 – 69, loyal and indigent officers, London, Westminster and Som. 1662, sewers, Bedford level 1662 – 63; conservator, Bedford level 1663 – 65, 1666 – 67, 1669 – 70, bailiff 1665 – 66; commr. for encroachments, Windsor 1671.R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 356; CSP Dom. 1660–1, pp. 77, 213; S. Wells, Drainage of Bedford Level, i. 351, 456–9; Cal. Treas. Bks. iii. 923.

Parlimentarian

PHELIPS (PHILLIPS), Robert (1619-1707), of Redlynch, Som. and Whitehall.

Main residences: Redlynch, Som.; Whitehall.

Author

P.W.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

PHELIPS (PHILLIPS), Robert (1619-1707)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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